Devs! While you're at it, unlock hairstyles and race starting sets too!

[Stormfur]

I would love to have that Au Ra chestpiece and some of their hairstyles on my Miqote. I don't mind if I have to do a quest to learn more about the significance of these things to the clan, for instance. Gives a little culture to the scene.

[Sil3ntxR3qui3m]

Hairstyles I can understand, not so sure about the race starting sets though. Those are heavy into lore, at least the Au Ra versions (my hubby bought the lore book). I don't know if a quest would do it justice.

[Naunet]

Yes, please!

Clothes are clothes. There's no good reason one person would be physically incapable of wearing some strappy sandals or a miniskirt or whatever.

Those are heavy into lore

What lore, exactly? None is provided. They are aesthetically inspired by a particular race perhaps (though I'm not sure what cultural relevance a schoolgirl outfit has for miqo'te, for example), but I think you'd be hard pressed to prove there's some heavy lore that would make it impossible for other races to wear these things.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Might as well just give all races all face and racial character creation choices to, since no one wants races to have unique things

[Fawkes]

Might as well just give all races all face and racial character creation choices to, since no one wants races to have unique things

Sounds good to me!

[Naunet]

Might as well just give all races all face and racial character creation choices to, since no one wants races to have unique things

Equating clothes with genetic features... not exactly helping. xD Though I'd also point to the folk who'd like to make mixed-race characters so...!

[Ghastly]

Yeah devs, let me use au ra voices on roegadyn. And don't forget the au ra eyes, I need to have the perfect look. While you're at it give me miqo'te face markings also.
It's all about the perfect look.

[Theodric]

Why do some people believe that everything has to be accessible to everybody? There is absolutely nothing wrong with some gear or hairstyles being exclusive to certain races. This, too, applies to gender based limitations. There needs to be some perks to choosing a particular race over the others; preferably limited to cosmetics only.

[LineageRazor]

Just as a pet peeve...

Hairstyles are not "locked" for any race. There's no checkbox in the code that the devs can go hit that will suddenly make other races able to wear this hair. Whenever they create a hairstyle for another race, the need to recreate it to accommodate that race's specific features, such as Mi'qote cat ears, Au Ra horns, Lalafell handlebar ears, and so on. The same goes for starter gear. It, too, would need to be redesigned for each other race suddenly able to wear it.

Now, job-specific gear - that IS a lock. The only thing preventing a WHM from wearing or glamouring heavy armor is basically a checkbox insisting that they can't.

The amount of dev time required to remove job-specific locks is trivial compared to the effort required to spread race-specific gear and hairstyles to other races. They could likely remove the job-related restrictions in, like, a day, but stubbornly continue to refuse to do so for reasons that escape me. Maybe there's some ridiculous spaghetti code involved...

[NolLacnala]

Why do some people not agree with me!?

Because opinions.